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Literature of developing nations for students : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on literature of developing nations

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine over fifty works of literature from developing nations, each with an introduction to the work and its author, a plot summary, descriptions of important characters, analysis of important themes, a critical overview, and other information
Print Book, English, ©2000
Gale Group, Detroit, ©2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
9780787649296, 9780787649302, 9780787649289, 0787649295, 0787649309, 0787649287
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v. 1. A-K
v. 2. L-Z. Vol. 1 The Agüero sisters / Cristina Garcia
Among the volcanoes / Omar S. Castañeda
Annie John / Jamaica Kincaid
Anowa / Ama Ata Aidoo
Anthills of the Savannah / Chinua Achebe
Aphrodite: a memoir of the senses / Isabel Allende
An astrologer's day / R.K. Narayan
Bad influence / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Boesman and Lena / Athol Fugard
Breath, eyes, memory / Edwidge Danticat
Business / Victor Hernández Cruz
Dream on Monkey Mountain / Derek Walcott
Fable / Octavio Paz
Family ties / Clarice Lispector
A far cry from Africa / Derek Walcott
The farming of bones / Edwidge Danticat
Fear / Gabriela Mistral
The friends / Rosa Guy
The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
The glass of milk / Manuel Rojas
The handsomest drowned man / Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The house of spirits / Isabel Allende
I, Rigoberta Menchú
Jasmine / Bharati Mukherjee
The kiss of the spider women / Manuel Puig. Vol. 2 The Latin Deli: an ars poetica / Judith Ortiz Cofer
The law of love / Laura Esquivel
Leaving this island place / Austin C. Clarke
Like water for chocolate / Laura Esquivel
The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
The martyr / Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The middleman / Bharati Mukherjee
No sweetness here / Ama Ata Aidoo
Ode to my socks / Pablo Neruda
One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel García Márquez
Petals of blood / Ngugi was Thiong'o
Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges
Prayer to the masks / Léopold Sédar Senghor
A river sutra / Gita Mehta
Seth and Samona / Joanne Hyppolite
Silent wing / Jóse Raúl Bernardo
So far from God / Ana Castillo
So long a letter / Mariama Bâ
Studies in the park / Anita Desai
The switchman / Juan José Arreola
The time of the hero / Mario Vargas Llosa
Valley song / Athol Fugard
The village witch doctor / Amos Tutuola
Where the air is clear / Carlos Fuentes
Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys